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grammar school
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) A school that teaches its pupils the grammar system of a European language, especially Latin and Greek. 2 (context chiefly UK English) A secondary school that stresses academic over practical or vocational education, until ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a secondary school emphasizing Latin and Greek in preparation for college a school for young children; usually the first 6 or 8 grades [syn: grade school , elementary school , primary school ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grammar \Gram"mar\, n. [OE. gramere, OF. gramaire, F. grammaire Prob. fr. L. gramatica Gr ?, fem. of ? skilled in grammar, fr. ? letter. See Gramme , Graphic , and cf. Grammatical , Gramarye .] The science which treats of the principles of language; the ...
Wikipedia
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A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin , but more recently an academically oriented secondary school . The original ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ From one fairly typical grammar school , studied by Colin Lacey, the fee-payers had almost disappeared as early as 1925. ▪ He was educated at Appleby grammar school and at eighteen was admitted to the Inner Temple. ▪ In the autumn ...
Usage examples of grammar school.
A visiter from each county constituting the district shall be appointed, by the overseers, for the county, in the month of October annually, either from their own body or from their county at large, which visiters or the greater part of them, meeting together at the said grammar school on the first Monday in November, if fair, and if not, then on the next fair day, excluding Sunday, shall have power to choose their own Rector, who shall call and preside at future meetings, to employ from time to time a master, and if necessary, an usher, for the said school, to remove them at their will, and to settle the price of tuition to be paid by the scholars.
If, right after that, I ask him to put on lavender gloves and a topper and distribute the prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School, there will be a divorce in the family.
I told him what story it was in, he was familiar with the scene, mentioned having read the book in grammar school.
As I lay in the grammar school dirt it occurred to me that I had made a grotesque mistake.
The Thebes school board bad decided to offer summer high school (in addition to the usual make-up session for grammar school dullards) as a patriotic act to permit older boys to graduate early and enlist.
I felt as if I was in grammar school again, being mutilated by the crowd who knew more than I did.
Instead of going to Newport or to Europe, I have deliberately agreed to teach the grammar school in this out of the way country place.
But it is true that over the entrance of the grammar school there hangs a vail.
She'd been into drugs early, maybe in grammar school, and she was even wilder as a teen than I had been.
Rather, the Order and the hierarchy of academics are recruited from among the elite pupils, everyone from the grammar school teachers to the highest officers, the twelve Directors of Studies, also called Masters, and the Ludi Magister, the director of the Glass Bead Game.
But I've been practicing not showing surprise since grammar school as a major defense of my persona.